Monday Manna - Stories of God's Goodness #1

Good Monday Morning to You

Sweet Friends,

Hope you had a delightful weekend.

Have to say our weekend was pretty delightful.....and 

even wrote about it but it was gonna make the post way

 too long,  so cut and pasted it for tomorrow..............

So stay tuned till tomorrow!!!.....lol

I wrote this last Tuesday,  July 26th, 2011.....

I just came from visiting Rebecca over at Life and Godliness,

and she shared a story that reminded me of a story of my own,

so decided to write about it for this Monday's Post.

If you would like to visit Rebecca too,  Click Here!

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So here it is.....................


and remember this was in the days before cell phones,
and I have to say I am glad it was, and you will see
why as you read on.................

Years ago when my son Scott was about 5 yrs. old,
 and we didn't have my daughter, DeeAnna yet.....
 probably about 26 years ago......but I remember it like
 yesterday,  because it was such a neat experience.

Two of my friends and I volunteered to do the decorations

 for a Mother/daughter banquet for our church. So since we

 knew of this wholesale florist, that was open to the public,

and it was fairly close by,  about 30 mins .away from where

 we lived,  we had decided it would be fun thing to go there
 and see what they had, and maybe just get some fresh ideas.

So, we were all in agreement and very excited about

going there,  so we decided on a good day for all of us

to go, and we set off in my friends car,  and as we were

 driving  there and talking Ann said to us,  "don't let me 

forget to get some gas before we head home",  and we

 all agreed,  and went back to talking,  then we arrived at

 the wholesale florist,  looked around,  ohh'd and ahhh'd

got some great ideas, got some great things to work with,

 and had a delightfully marvelous time, as we all love seeing 

 and creating pretty things as well as decorating!

So we paid for our goodies, then headed for home.

As we were driving and talking in all of our excitement,

about our great finds,  we were planning  how we would 

do this and that and the other,  then all of the sudden,

 Ann said uh oh.... 

I think  I ran out of gas, as she was

 pulling over to the shoulder of the interstate highway, 

 right before an exit.  

Now we were all in shock and couldn't believe we had 

forgotten all about the gas, but mainly, we were all now 

worried because we all had young children that would be

 coming home from school,  and we were cutting it very 

close as it was...................

Ann, who was a  brand new believer said, guess, I will
 just get the gas can and walk up to that gas station, we 
all knew it that wasn't too far,  probably about a mile, but
 we also, intuitively knew it would take quite awhile to go
 and come.............. then the thought came to me, 

Why don't you pray first.........
so I said to my friends, let's pray first,

so we bowed our heads and I said something like "Lord, 

 you know we need to be home in time for our kids,  please

 help us",  and as we raised our heads from praying, a car that

 was going up the exit, starting backing down into the grass

 coming backwards towards us....  we never even had time
 to say anything to each other, it happened so quickly.

 The car backed up next to us, and a man rolled down his
 window,  as did my friend Vicki, who was sitting in the
 front passenger side, and the man said, 

" You outta gas?? "

and we all said " yes".........

So he said, " I will push you up the exit to the gas station,"

and we said " Oh, thank you so much",  with great amazement,
never thought of anything like that... and so he lined his car up
 with hers and away we went up the exit to the gas station,  but

when we got there,  Ann had looked at the gas pumps, and

 said, Oh,  No............ they don't have diesel !! 

By this time,  the man had disengaged from her car

and was now beside us again,  and guess he saw our

faces,  and said "What's wrong???"

and

we all said in unison, " they don't have diesel  and

her car takes diesel", 

 So he said, " I will push you across the street."
Now I have to admit this was getting funnier and
 more unbelieveable to us, by the minute, this being 
pushed all over the place in this manner........

So once again, he pushed her car to a station that was
 catty corner to the first station,  and as we reached the 
pumps, we saw that thankfully, 
they had diesel.
and the man again, disengaged his car and pulled up
 along side of us, and  guess he saw we were smiling,

 then simply said, " gotta go".................

and we hardly had time to thank him, and off he went.

Ann, got out of the car, put the gas in,  then got back in 

the car,  but when she tried to start the car......

...........it would not start...................

so my friend Vicki,  laid her hand on the dashboard, 

 and said "Lord,  Please start the car, you know we

have to be home for our kids", 

and it started right up........................so we headed

for home,  and believe it or not..................

we were all home in time to get our kids!!

We can't explain it, but we know it was miraculous!

and it was sure a huge faith builder for all of us but, 

especially for our new christian friend, cause she

said I would have just walked on up to the gas 

station and got the gas, and been really late
 getting home.

Makes me think of that verse in James 4:2, that says
 you have not, because you don't ask God................
and there is more to the verse as well, but that is the
gist of it!!

and I wonder how many times things would turn out

so much better.... if we would just ask him to Help us!!

Oh and here is a part of the story I forgot about,

Then later that evening when Ann told her hubby

 the story,  he said not only was it amazing all that
happened to us, but it is amazing that the car 
started at all.............

because if you let a diesel go dry,  you would have

to do something special to the engine to get it to

restart and it might never start again!


So that was even further confirmation of our
miracle.................


and I have wondered many times if the driver
of that car might have been an angel sent
from the Lord to help us!  Especially since
he already seemed to know we were
 out of Gas!!!


Well,  Sweet Folks,
Tell me what you think of my
 true story........
and of God's goodness............


Have a Miraculous Monday!!


I am linking up to Richella
over at Imparting grace
if you would like to hear more
stories of God's amazing 
everyday graces just click here.




Love, Hugs
and Angelic Blessings to you,
Nellie